Perfect for morning run and then right to the gym for weight training. Can wear as casual after. Whenever I have to do a great deal of walking--e.g. vacation travel--these are what I wear. The basic black and gray colors work for casual wear. Do not like the the festival of colors on other brands.

One more comment from me. This time after 1 year of usage. I would like to say that these shoes were the most comfortable ones I ever had. Yes, they WERE. It would be perfect but their quality is terribly low. In first few months all the interior material started to peel and crumble. After about 6 months the bottom of one shoe cracked close to my fingers, very soon the same happened with other shoe, later I found few more cracks close to my heel. But I was still able to use it since it did not become wider. But few days ago I found a gap in your durable yak skin which came from nowhere, and it is getting bigger and bigger on every step. It seems these shoes will be useless in next few days.

The most sad thing: I left USA very soon after I bought these shoes, so I was not able to bring it back. I am really disappointed because of such low quality, I was not even running a lot, it was mostly walking. I have 3 other pair of ECCO shoes and I am happy with its quality. But these running shoes disappointed me a lot.

I now buy only Ecco shoes because I have to wear pretty mean orthotics inserts and Ecco shoes seem to be the only brand that takes this into account. However I must also say that Ecco inner souls are well shaped and very supportive in their own right.

This is a great shoe, I sell shoes for a major department store to which we sell Ecco, but we do not carry this shoe, because our buyer is not that educated at all, if we had this shoe, we would sell out, we have the woman's version of this, and I cannot keep it on the shelf... although one of my treads is coming off already...;9, but all in all the shoe is by far the best shoe I have ever had.. by far better than a Dansko...